The SE4 companion - Why the long wait?.

[Atrocities]

Don't risk your job to program for a game. Also by programing at work you may in fact be giving your idea to your employer. When I worked we all had to sign an agreement that anything we designed, made, invented, created, wrote, thought, pooped out, consumed, considered, etc belonged to the company.

[Ruatha]

No problem, I'm not programming at work, that's why I have time to post(!).

I don't have any machine with any programming language installed here anyway.

And BTW, I like so to bask in the glow of your adminiration, it gives such a nice tan

Next week I'll work night and'll have more time during mornings alone at home while the kids are off to their respective daytime occupations, I hope to finish it then.

It seems so easy, the complete code is there!
I think I'll make a dedicated MP3 player and include it in the project, that way the user won't have to define paths and extensions.
If you want to use another mp3 player you'll just use the external program option instead of the bundled mp3 player.

[ June 03, 2004, 05:43: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[dogscoff]

Just want to say, I am drooling in anticipation of this application.

So it automatically downloads pbw files as they become available and then opens se4 for you. Excellent. Two questions:

-When i finish my turn, will it automatically upload the necessary file? That would be really really sweet.
-Can I configure it to notify me with some sort of on-screen alert (New turn available for game XXX. Play turn? Y/N) instead of automatically opening se4 every time?

Also, please could you code in a module that will monitor the beer-content of my fridge and automatically send a robot down the shops for me to restock different brands according to the mod I'm playing.

[Aiken]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Don't risk your job to program for a game. Also by programing at work you may in fact be giving your idea to your employer. When I worked we all had to sign an agreement that anything we designed, made, invented, created, wrote, thought, pooped out, consumed, considered, etc belonged to the company.

OMG it's a natural slavery! Call for Spartacus!

[Aiken]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Also, please could you code in a module that will monitor the beer-content of my fridge and automatically send a robot down the shops for me to restock different brands according to the mod I'm playing.

Koolio at your service, Master

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Just want to say, I am drooling in anticipation of this application.

So it automatically downloads pbw files as they become available and then opens se4 for you. Excellent. Two questions:

-When i finish my turn, will it automatically upload the necessary file? That would be really really sweet.
-Can I configure it to notify me with some sort of on-screen alert (New turn available for game XXX. Play turn? Y/N) instead of automatically opening se4 every time?

Also, please could you code in a module that will monitor the beer-content of my fridge and automatically send a robot down the shops for me to restock different brands according to the mod I'm playing.

There will be an option to have it upload it automaticly, but it won't be set as default, you might want to save the turnfile in between.

To have it open SE4 automaticly you must also set an option, otherwise it will only alert you that a new turn is ready at the PBW site.
there is one option to download before alert and one option to autostart if possible after download.
Unlike the current RTC client it won't be connected to the PBW site, it will check it at an interval you set (minimum 3 minutes).

The alert box will look different depending on what you have choosen in the settings and what game it is alerting for, it can be that it alerts when a turn is ready and you might then have the options: Do nothing, download, download and start SE4, alert me later.

I'll just make the robotmode for my hometown as I don't have the stamina to program maps with beer resalers for the entire world, I'm sorry.
Will fix this to Version 2.0 though!

Now I must decide what it'll do if there are two games to download and autostart possible, it can't start two games as it has to start the companion application game window open when it starts a game and it can only have one of those open at the same time.
Propably it'll wait until the application game window closes and then start the next if the option to autostart downlaoded games is set.

[ June 03, 2004, 13:09: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[geoschmo]

If you need to test that, you could setup a couple PBW games with just you as a player.